Ad-hoc data processing has proven to be a critical paradigm for Internet companies processing large volumes of unstructured data. However, the emergence of cloud-based computing, ...
Applying meta search systems is a suitable method to support the user if there are many different services. Due to information splitting strategies of literature services existing ...
Many parallel scientific applications need high-performance I/O. Unfortunately, end-to-end parallel-I/O performance has not been able to keep up with substantial improvements in p...
Multiagent Bayesian networks (MABNs) are a powerful new framework for uncertainty management in a distributed environment. In a MABN, a collective joint probability distribution i...
—Personal data is a valuable asset for service providers. To collect such data, free services are offered to users, for whom the risk of loosing privacy by subscribing to a servi...
Harold van Heerde, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Nicolas An...